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Player Focus: Ill Discipline - Europe's Worst Offenders

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Player Focus: Ill Discipline - Europe's Worst Offenders With Christmas approaching it seems only fitting to look at the players that haven’t been on their best behaviour this season, as we look at the individuals with the worst disciplinary records across Europe’s top 5 leagues.We have ranked the following players by attributing 1 point to a ...

Player Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Young Full-Backs

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Player Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Young Full-Backs Having recently analysed the top 10 young centre-backs according to our WhoScored rating system, here we look at their teammates in the back four, compiling a leaderboard of the best full-backs of the age of 21 or under.To make the grade each player must have appeared at least 5 times from kick-off ...

Player Focus: The Bundesliga’s Top Rated Youngsters

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Player Focus: The Bundesliga’s Top Rated Youngsters With the Bundesliga getting a lot of praise for their age structure and the club’s handling of young players, let’s have a look at the league’s top rated players aged 23 or younger.10. Lars Bender (Leverkusen) – 23 years oldWhoScored Rating: 7.42The twin brother of Dortmund&r...

Player Focus: Falcao

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Player Focus: Falcao If Falcao is playing for a move to one of European football’s top clubs in the transfer window, the Atletico Madrid striker is timing his run perfectly. He shoots, he scores.On Sunday night the Colombian striker had five shots and scored five times during the 6-0 demolition of Deportivo La Cor...

Player Focus: Eden Hazard

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Player Focus: Eden Hazard Eden Hazard is standing at the penalty spot, his hands on his hips. It's 0-0 in the 35th minute. The Chelsea No.17 had just tried to give the Nordsjælland goalkeeper Jesper Hansen the 'Baggio' eyes, looking intently at one corner before aiming a shot at the other.He had also maybe heard from P...

WhoScored Champions League Team of the Group Stages

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WhoScored Champions League Team of the Group Stages With the Champions League group stages coming to an end, the fates of the 32 clubs involved have been decided, with a number of high-profile casualties, not least reigning champions Chelsea and Premier League winners Manchester City.Here, however, we focus on the players that have starred in their r...

Player Focus: Mousa Dembélé

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Player Focus: Mousa Dembélé When Luka Modric made his long awaited and fully expected departure for the riches of Real Madrid in the summer, the little man left a gaping hole in the heart of Tottenham's midfield. The Croatian midfielder had proven his worth to one of the biggest clubs in the world through his performances for ...

Player Focus: Wesley Sneijder

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Player Focus: Wesley Sneijder I'm going with my head high, I'm going to a great team, there's no doubt about that. I've been very happy here but now I have to look ahead and focus on my new team. What happened with me is something very strange. They have treated me very badly but I prefer not to talk about it.”Those words,...

Player Focus: Milan Badelj

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Player Focus: Milan Badelj When the transfer window closed on September 1st, many HSV supporters were celebrating, full of joy about the club’s most recent acquisitions. After having captured the former German number one goalkeeper René Adler on a free transfer from Bayer Leverkusen earlier in the summer, the &ld...

Player Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Young Centre-Backs

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Player Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Young Centre-Backs A third of the way into the season, it is fair to say that a number of hot prospects have either emerged or continued to develop this season, and we at WhoScored are always keen to give credit where credit's due.Perhaps the most high pressure role to fill at a young age is at centre-back, and in thi...